The Bishop’s Blog

Daily prayer: For families

Daily prayer: For families

Merciful God, who looks not with outward eyes but discerns the heart of each: we confess that those whom we love the most are often strangers to us....

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Daily prayer: Lancelot Andrewes

Daily prayer: Lancelot Andrewes

Perfect in us, Almighty God, whatever is lacking of your gifts: of faith, to increase it; of hope, to establish it; of love, to kindle it; that like...

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Music at St. Be’s Harmony Room

Music at St. Be’s Harmony Room

On a perfect early autumn Saturday evening, the coolest place in town was St Barnabas' Episcopal Church of Eagle Rock, or so testified a delighted...

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About the Blog

Bishop John Harvey Taylor has devoted himself to promoting reconciliation, transparency, and a stronger financial and organizational foundation for the diocese’s 200 parishes, missions, schools, and other institutions. In those called to leadership in the church, whether lay or ordained, he encourages the exercise of empathy and curiosity as tools of evangelism, to enrich relationships and build new ones across the barriers of difference and prejudice according to race, language, geography, orientation, identification, age, and socioeconomics.

These are some of his reflections: